Improvement in horse hay-rakes



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Patented July 21,1874.

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TH! GRAPHIC CU. PHOTDfLlTHB I1 4| PARK PLACE,N,Y.

3 Sheets--Sheet 3; B. NURSE. Horse Hay-Rakes.

Patented my 21,1874.

THE GRAPHIC CD.PHOT0-LITH.39&4I PARK PLAGEA N.Y.

Pr-rrnlvr BEN MORSE, OF ITHACA, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE HAV-RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,201, dated July 21,1874; application filed January 24, 1874.

Toall whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BEN MORSE, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins andState of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in HorseHay-Rakes 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of myhorse hay-rake. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3, 4, 5, G, 7,8, 9, l0, ll, 12, and 13 are detail views of the same.

This invention has relation to sulky hayrakes, wherein the rake-teethare raised for discharging the gathered loads by the draft or power ofthe team, and also wherein the rake-teeth are held down to 'their workby means of a catching device.

The following is a description of a rake embracing the improvementswhich I have made on the above-named class of rakes In the annexeddrawings, A designates the axle of two transporting-wheels. B B and O Care thills, which are rigidly secured on said axle, and to which isapplied a cross-bar, a. C is the drivers seat, which is mounted on aninclined bar rising from the cross-bar a, and arranged in close relationto the wheel B. The rake-teeth b are secured to tubular bearings b1 on abar, b2, which is supported by eyebearings c c, fixed to the rear sideof the axle A. These` teeth b pass between pins c, which are between twoparallel bars, D D into which bars the ends of the pins e are insertedand confined by tie-bolts c. The lower bar, D, is designed for lifting'the rake-teeth, and the upper bar, D for holding these teeth down totheir work. These pins and their bars will keep the rake-teeth in properposition, and are an improvement on staple-guides and a single bar. Bymeans of armsff and alever,f, the bars D D are connected to the bar b2,on which the rake-teeth articulate. E E E are strippers, which clear thehay from the raketeeth as these teeth are raised. The two strippers E Eare secured to the bottom of the axle A by means of metal clasps g, andone or more screws. These clasps g are ilanged, as shown in Fig. 4, andthe flanges embrace the bottom of the axle and the ends of thestrippers, so as to form rigid and substantial attachments therefor.That portion of the intermediate stripper E which is between the axle Aand bar D is made quite broad, and affords a support for a guide, 71through which a bolt, F, plays. This bolt- F is intended for locking thebars D D down when the teeth b are in raking position, and for thispurpose its rear end enters a slot made through a plate, e', which issecured to the two bars D D. The bolt F extends forward over the axle A,and is pivoted to a foot-lever,F, convenient to the driver when in hisseat C, and by means of a spring, s, the said bolt is forced backwardwhen the foot is removed from lever F. G designates a single-tree, towhich the animal is hitched, which single-tree is pivoted to a clasp onthe front end of a draft-rod, j. Rod j passes loosely through thecross-bar a, and through a guide, k, and its rear end is attached to alink, Z, which is pivoted to the shortest arm of the angular lever f',as shown in Fig. 1. On 011e side of the lever f are two fixed ears, m,between which an angular lever, a, is pivoted so as to vibratehorizontally. The shortest arm of lever n is received into the crotch ofa fork, o, xed on the bolt F, and the longest arm of this lever n has.pivoted to it one end of a rod, J, which passes through a guide, p, onthe bar D, and is adjustably secured to a lifting-slide, p. Thisliftingslide p is held down upon the bar D by means of iixed clasps, andits outer end is slightly beveled underneath. On the inner side'vv ofthe transporting-wheel B is a concentric series of lifting-tappets, q,which are formed at the augles of a zigzag lifting-ring, K. "As beforestated, the rake-teeth b are held down to their work by the bolt Fentering a plate, fz', affixed to the bars D D.

When the driver desires to discharge a gathered load he presses thefoot-lever F forward and releases the bolt F from the bars D D', and bythe same movement the slide p is thrust out far enough to bring it inrange of the tappets q on the liftingring K. One of the tappets q willthen strike the outer end of slide p and throw up the rake-teeth b untila .AN aan@ FFICn. i

hooked hand-lever, o, catches on thc bottom ot' the guide 11. At thesame time that the hook on lever 1^ catches under the guide p a beveledilange, u, on the under side of the curved overhanging portion of abracket, L, which is fixed to the axle A, will strike a double-beveledlug, fv, which is adj ustably secured on the rod J, and move back theslide p ont of the range of the tappcts q. The rake will now remain inan elevated position, it being so held by the hooked lever r, which ispivoted on one side of the bracket L. I will here state that the lever ris held in a position for engaging with guide 19 by Ineans of an offset,r', formed on this lever, which rests on the overhanging portion of thebracket L. When the lever 1* is released from the guide 17 the rake willfall back to a Working position, and in doing so the lug.;` v will bestruck by another beveled flange, u', on bracket L, which will give theslide p another inward movement and adjust the lever u, so that itsshort arm will fall into the crotch of the fork o on bolt F, whichlatter will spring into the slot in plate z' and hold down the rake.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The sliding bolt F, having a foot-lever, F',

on one end, in combination with the spring s, guide 71., and anengaging-plate, i, on bars l) D', substantially as and for the purposesdcscribed.

2. The fork o on bolt F, in combination with lever n, pivoted to lever fand with the slide p and liftiug-tappets q, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

3. The beveled lug o on the rod J, and slide p', in combination with thebeveled flanges u u on the bracket L, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the angular lever a, fork 0,1m;` fu, and flange uwith lever i', rod J, slide p', and lifting-tappets q, substantially asdescribed.

5. The single-tree G, connected to lever j by means of link Z and rod j,in combination with the locking-down and releasing bolt Iv, actuated asdescribed.

ln testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence oi' two witnesses.

l?, EN MORSE.

Witnesses z ABEL BURRrrT, I. C. l\IoWHon'rER.

